Elementary Visual School Arts

6

Instructional Resources and Materials
Physical Technology-Based
Clay
Clay tools to create texture
Textbooks
Water
Glaze or paint
Paint brushes
Photographs & reproductions
Paintbrushes
When Clay Sings by Byrd Baylor
(Aladdin, 1987)
Examples

Document camera

Show internet found examples

Unit Vocabulary Terms Enrichment/Extension Interdisciplinary

Connections

Priority

Standards

Concepts

Supporting
Standards
Concepts
and Other
Unit-
Specific
Terms
Sculpture
Clay
Hand building
Form (3D)
Two-
dimensional
Pinch
Slab
Coil
Score
Clay tools
Texture
Sphere
Pottery
Kiln
Paint
Glaze

Elements

Line

Shape

Form

Air bubbles

Kiln and

what

happens in

the kiln

Texture

Greenware

Bisqueware

Students may take the

pinch pot form & create

an imaginary animal of

choice after learning

basic techniques of

attaching features,

adding details, and

making textures.

Social Studies – history

of Aztec pottery,

meaning of the turtle

symbol in other

cultures

Science – clay,

characteristics of

turtles, evaporation,

weathering

Reading/Literature –

“The Pot that Juan

Built”

Math – two-

dimensional (shape)

Three – dimensional

(form)